Wudang: Legends Of Qi Earth 108 Macau IV : Something Evil's Lurking In The Dark

"So this is Macau? Do at of you have any money, it would be nice to go wild in one of those casinos!" Louis yelled out as he spun himself around a street light, drawing attention to himself as people from all works of life looked at him. Alex on was drawn to the bright lights, and just how much more relaxed this city seemed. The Wudang sect had at least 20 thousand people living within it's mountains, so life was quite bustling there, however Macau had hundreds of thousands of residents, not to mention the tourists, this was a really lively place.

"We're too far south! We're close to the city of Hong Kong in the north east, but the Wudang mountains are to the far north, right in the central area of the empire of heaven, we'll need to get back home on a transport airship or a bus or car. But there in lies the problem, who has any money?" Yun Fao asked as he looked back at the city gates they just walked through.

"Are you serious? We just got here and you want to go back already, let's move around the city and have some fun! Trust me, what could possibly go wrong from having a little fun?" Louis spoke out loud with a flourish and a very bright smile, however, everyone else just stood there looking at him.

"You're the least trustworthy person amongst all of us, I don't know why the young Master listened to you, but we're in a mess because you initiated an Airship heist, and even worse is the fact that you're scared of heights trusting you…..."

""" Is a mistake!""" Sabrina spoke up before her sisters completed the sentence.

Alex knew he had acted a but immature, but he was not going to leave this city without at least getting to see it a bit, not to mention, none of them had any money on them. The sect always provided for their needs, and most of their time was spent training so there was no room for leisure and Entertainment, it would be better to utilize this opportunity to the best of their abilities.

"Come on guys, let's just explore the city a bit and see if we can make some money to get a bus ticket. So there's no need to argue, let's just roll with the punches." With that said he moved forwards into crowd, his eyes peeled and his mind open to take in the sights, his friends were not too far behind, as they all decided to enjoy their time here, it wasn't every day they'll get a chance to visit new places or experience new things, they wanted to enjoy it while it lasted.

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SOMEWHERE IN MACAU

A team of three dozen men were hanging around the edges of a cathedral, on a normal day such a sight would have raised alarms, but they were dressed differently and this was Macau, a city who's night life was a bit more extravagant than Last Vegas itself. But this city never sleeps, and except for the twelve men themselves, no one else knew that they had any connection with each other. Slowly the men began to move towards twelve different directions, their steps a little uneven, but focused.

The mingled with the people, their faces obscured by hats of varying sizes and styles they had on their heads. They casted heavy shadows as they're walked amongst the people, seemingly normal, but eerie in the way that they moved, their eyes shaded and heavy, it was grey and dull carrying with them an aura of death and desolation that was unlike anything ever seen or heard.

Twelve directions, twelve men but all of them with the same goal. Eventually the people around them began to notice the strangeness of the people moving around them, and the biggest and most obvious change was to their shadows. It wasn't like that of a normal man, their shadows foiled, shifted and bent in the weirdest way possible, it was as if their shadows were a cage and it held all sort of unspeakable horrors within it. Eventually they all came to a stop, standing right in the middle of people, drawing the ire and curiosity of the people whose path they had blocked.

And then almost as if they were connected by some invisible string, all twelve men raised their heads to the sky, the hate on their head falling off to expose a head devoid of any hair and covered with black pentagrams and arcane circles. And almost as if a switch was turned on, their bodies began to vibrate, their arms spread wide as a beam of light shot up into the sky in all twelve directions, and slowly above the city of Macau, a summoning circle was slowly being drawn, but that wasn't the most eye catching or immediate problem.

The shadows of the twelve men began to shift, turning into perfect rectangles on the ground, creating an inky blackness that seemed to lead into an abyss of no return. The normal civilians had taken a few steps back, but in a world where almost everyone was practitioner of one form of energy discipline or another, not everyone was as shaken by the weird display.

However they still have it a wide berth, their eyes wide open as they stared at something they couldn't understand or explain. But sooner rather than later, they would be finding out the depths of the horror that was about to spill out from those rectangular shadows.

Slowly and with deliberate steps, the first clawed hand stretched out from the inky blackness, it blacks claws and red fingers gave off an eerie chill that shook those with much weaker wills, and as for those who were a bit stronger, they knew they would all be in for a quite a fight. Following the red fingers and black claws was a thin and long red arm with black strips, and then what followed was a hideous hunched body. The being in Front of them had arms that hung all the way to the ground, it's shoulders were wide and it's black legs were hind legs with cloven hooves.

A black horn stretched out from the side of it's face, and it's hair were fleshy feelers with tiny red orbs at the end of it. It had a wide jaw, with it's lips stretched from one side of it's face to the other, completely filled with fangs and dripping with black saliva. It had no nose or eyes, but even with it's hunched figure, these monsters were a good nine feet tall. Within the twelve locations of very densely packed people, some of which were inside a building, there was someone who recognized exactly what sort of creature that had crawled out of the shadow of those twelve men.

"De...de...DEMONS!"

Demons!; Not demonic beasts, or any sort of magical creatures, but actual demons from the deepest pits of hell. And with that realization came the slaughter, it was hard to tell exactly which demon made the first step, but soon enough a woman watched in horror as long claws sliced her baby to ribbons, followed quickly by a jaw clamping down on her head and removing it from her body, blood and goes spraying every which way. The restaurant she was in broke down as people scrambled for the doors while others decided to out up a fight.

The demon made a huge leap towards the door, going after the fleeing customers, only for a man with a sword to appear and cleave off it's head, putting an end to it's threat. But there was no time to take in a breath of relief because as soon as he turned around, another one of the Demons had stabbed it's extremely long arm clean through his body. It ignored his cry of pain and look of horror as it dug it's other fingers into his chest and pulled his body apart, spreading blood and guts everywhere. And then that demon was joined by another and another and another!

Those who had already ran out of the restaurant were lucky, but even then they still went outside to the waiting jaws and unforgiven claws of the demons slowly taking over the entire city. In front of the cathedral where the twelve men were first noticed, a holy man held out a cross as he desperately tried to use his faith and believe to hold back this horde of monsters, but it seemed as the cross in his hand did not absolutely nothing against the onslaught of the demon in front of him as one after the other, members of his convent were torn apart.

There was a dull hide behind him as a demon that looked a bit bigger than the others, with horns going upwards out of his head rather than the side stood in front of the priest. The old man held up his cross, his hands shaking as he began to recite a verse from his holy book.

"Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I…I…..I fear no Evil...thy did..." and then much to his shock and surprise, the feeler like hair on this demon shot forwards elongating and piercing through the body of the priest and raising up to the air, and then the demon spoke.

"You fear no Evil...good! But I'm not evil holy man! I'M DEATH!"

And then all of his life essence and energy was sucked out of his body by the feelers, a dried husk of a body was dropped to the ground as the larger demon raised his head up to the full moon and...

*ROOOOOOAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!"

Chapter end